ponderous
adjective
of great weight; heavy; massive.
ponderousness
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a word derived from
ponderous.
Example Sentences
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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Its elegiac pacing and atmosphere convey the ponderousness of the nation’s losses at that moment.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023
The ponderousness of the picture signals itself almost every minute “Freddy’s” illuminates the screen.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
Yet “This One” has none of the ponderousness of earlier conceptual art.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
Ovid is brisker and more obviously to the purpose; but Ariosto gives the ponderousness and dreary triumph of the monster.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
